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Dead Man's Cell Phone

  • Sarah Ruhl
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, Contemporary
  • 2M, 4F
  • ISBN: 9780573663925

"Satire is her oxygen...In her new oddball comedy, Dead Man's Cell Phone, Sarah Ruhl is forever vital in her lyrical and biting takes on how we behave."

The Washington Post

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: Strong Language, Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student

  • Accolades:
  • Sarah Ruhl was the 2003 recipient of the Whiting Award for Drama
An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man—with a lot of loose ends. So begins Dead Man's Cell Phone, a wildly imaginative new comedy by MacArthur 'Genius' Grant recipient and Pulitzer Prize finalist, Sarah Ruhl, author of The Clean House and Eurydice. A work about how we memorialize the dead—and how that remembering changes us—it is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world.
REVIEWS:

Satire is her oxygen. . . . In her new oddball comedy, Dead Man's Cell Phone, Sarah Ruhl is forever vital in her lyrical and biting takes on how we behave.

The Washington Post

Ruhl's zany probe of the razor-thin line between life and death delivers a fresh and humorous look at the times we live in.

Variety

[Ruhl] tackles big ideas with a voice that entertains' - NPR'...beguiling new comedy...Ms. Ruhl's work blends the mundane and the metaphysical, the blunt and the obscure, the patently bizarre and the bizarrely moving.

New York Time
Premiere Production: Dead Man's Cell Phone was first presented at Wooly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington D.C. in 2007. It was directed by Rebecca Taichman.

Characters

  • Casting: 2M, 4F
  • Casting Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle)

  • JEAN - a woman
    GORDON - a dead man
    MRS. GOTTLIEB - Gordon's mother
    HERMIA - Gordon's widow
    DWIGHT - Gordon's brother
    THE OTHER WOMAN/THE STRANGER - has an accent

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    An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man—with a lot of loose ends. So begins Dead Man's Cell Phone, a wildly imaginative new comedy by MacArthur 'Genius' Grant recipient and Pulitzer Prize finalist, Sarah Ruhl, author of The Clean House and Eurydice. A work about how we memorialize the dead—and how that remembering changes us—it is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world.

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